that duty may require. thank you for listening. good night. and god bless allthat's it, my .

we may have taken the long way home, but we finally got here to houston and.

the first thing i want to do tonight is to congratulate president george bush. and to remove any doubt about where we stand. the primaries are over. the heart is strong again. and the buchanan brigades are enlisted. all the way to a great republican comeback victory in november. my friends, my. like many of you. like many of you last month, i watched that giant masquerade ball up at madison square

garden. where 20,000 liberals and radicals came dressed up as moderates and centrist and the greatest single of cross-dressing in american political history. you know, one won by one won one the prophets of doom appeared at the podium the reagan decade. they moaned, was a terrible time in america. and they said the only way to prevent worse times is to turn our country's fate and our country's future. over to the party that gave us mcgovern, mondale, joe carter and michael dukakis. where do they find leaders.

no way. my friends. the american people are not going to go back to the discredited liberals of the 1960s and the failed liberalism of the 1970s. no matter how slick the package in 1992. oh, all of my friends friends. you know, the malcontents the malcontents of madison square garden, notwithstanding the 1980s were not terrible years in america. they were great. you know it and i know it and everyone knows it except for the carping critics who sat on the

sidelines of history. at one of the great statesmen of modern time, ronald reagan. you know, out of remember that time out of jimmy days of malaise, ronald reagan crafted. ronald reagan crafted the greatest peacetime economic recovery in history. 3 million new businesses and 20 million new jobs under the reagan doctrine. one by one. it was the communist dominoes that began to fall. first, grenada was, liberated by us. airborne that the u.s. marine corps.

and mighty red army was driven out of afghanistan. and then american weapons. and then in nicaragua cuba. that squalid marxist regime was forced to hold free elections by. ronald reagan's contra army and the communists were thrown out of power power. fellow americans, we ought to remember, it was under our party that the berlin wall came down and europe was reunited. it was under our party that soviet empire collapsed and the captive nations broke free. you know, it is said that every american president will be remembered in history with a single sentence. george washington was father of his country.

abraham lincoln freed the slaves and save the union. and ronald reagan won the cold war. and it is time time. and it is just about time. it is about time. that my old colleagues, the columnists and commentators looking down on us tonight from skyboxes and anchor booths, gave ronald reagan the full credit he deserves for leading america to victory in the cold war. but most of all, my friends.

most of all, ronald reagan made us proud. be americans again. we never felt better about our country and we never stood taller in the eyes of the world. and when the gipper was at the helm. we are here tonight, my friends, not only to celebrate. but to nominate an american president as many roles. he is our first diplomat, the architect of american foreign policy. and which of these two men is more qualified for that great role? george bush has been u.n. ambassador, director of the cia envoy to china. as vice president george bush coauthored and cosigned the policies that won the cold war.

as president george bush presided over the liberation of eastern europe and the termination of the warsaw pact. and what about mr. clinton? well, bill clinton. bill clinton couldn't find 150 words to discuss foreign policy in an accepted speech that lasted almost an. you know. as was said, as was said of another democratic candidate, bill clinton's foreign policy experience is pretty much confined to having breakfast once at the international of pancakes.

no, let's. what happened? let us look at the record and recall what under president george bush more, human beings are escape from the prison house, tyranny to freedom than in any other four year period in history. and for any man. let me tell you for any man to call this record a failure, the cheap political rhetoric of politician who only knew how to build themselves up by tearing america down. and we don't want that kind of leadership in the united states.

the president, my friends. the presidency is also an office that theodore roosevelt called america's bully pulpit. harry truman said, it was preeminently a of moral leadership. george bush is a defender of right to life and a champion of the judeo-christian values and beliefs upon which america was founded. mr. clinton. mr. clinton, however, has a

different agenda at its top, is unrestricted, unrestricted abortion demand. when the irish catholic governor of pennsylvania, robert casey, asked to say a few words on behalf of the 25 million unborn children destroyed since roe v wade, bob casey was told there was no room for him at the podium at bill clinton's convention and no room at the end yet. yet a militant leader of the homosexual rights movement could rise at that same convention and say bill clinton and, al gore represent, the most pro, lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history. and so do. bill clinton says he supports school choice, but only for

state run schools. parents who send their children to christian schools or private schools or jewish schools or catholic schools need not apply. like me. can you get two for the price of one? mr. clinton says of his lawyer spouse. and what and what does hillary believe? well, hillary believes the 12 year olds should have the right to sue their parents. and has compared marriage and the family as institutions to slavery and life on an indian reservation. well, speak for yourself,

hillary. and friends. like this. this my friends. this is radical. the agenda that clinton and clinton would impose on america, abortion on demand, a litmus test for the supreme court almost actual rights discrimination, religious schools, women in combat units. that's change. all right. but that's not the kind of change america needs. it's not the kind of change america wants. and it's not the kind of change we can abide in nation. we still call god's country.

president. a president of the united states is also the president of the united states, is also america's commander in chief. he's the man we authorize to send fathers and sons and brothers and into battle. george bush was 17 years old when they bombed pearl harbor. he left his high school graduation. he walked down to the recruiting office and he signed up to become the youngest fighter in

the pacific war. and mr. clinton. and clinton. i'll tell you where he was. i'll tell you where he was. i'll tell you where he was. let me tell you where he was. i'll tell. i'll tell you where he was. when bill clinton's time came in vietnam, he sat up in a dormitory room in oxford,

england, and figured out how to dodge the draft. let me ask the question to this convention, which of these two men has the moral authority to send young americans into battle? i suggest respectfully i suggest respectfully, it is the american patriot and war hero, navy lieutenant j.g. george herbert walker bush. my fellow americans. my fellow americans. as this campaign is about

philosophy and it is about character. and george bush, hands down on both counts. march. and it is time all of us came home and stood beside him as his running mate. mr. chose albert gore. but just how moderate is prince albert. well, according to the national taxpayers union, al gore beat out teddy kennedy two straight years for the title of biggest spender in the u.s. senate. and teddy kennedy isn't moderate about anything.

i'm not kidding. i'm not kidding about teddy. how many other 60 year olds. do you know who still go to florida? spring break. and know know. you know, up at that great at that great big party they held up in new york. mr. gore made a startling declaration. henceforth, albert gore said the central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment. wrong. albert. the central organizing principle of this republic is freedom.

and from the day and from the forests, from the ancient forests of oregon, in washington to the inland empire of california, america's great middle class has got to start standing up to these environmental who put birds, rats and insects ahead of families, workers and. one year ago. we're doing it.

now. one year ago, my friends. one year ago. i could not have dreamt i would be here tonight. i was just one of many panelists on what president bush calls those crazy sunday talk shows. but i disagreed with the president. and so we challenged the president in the republican primaries. and we fought as best we could from february to june, president won 33 of those primaries. i can't recall exactly how many we won. i'll get you the figure tomorrow. but tonight, i do want to speak from the heart to the 3 million people who voted for pat buchanan for president. i will never. i will never never i will never

forget you or the honor you have done me. but i do believe i do believe deep in my heart that the right place for us be now in this campaign is right beside george bush. this party. this party is my. this party is our home. and we've got to come home to it. and don't let anyone tell you a different. yes, we disagreed with bush, but we with him for the freedom choose religious schools. and we stand with him against the immoral idea. gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing and law

as married men and women. we with president bush, we stand with president bush right to life. and for voluntary prayer in the public schools. and we stand against putting our wives and daughters and sisters into combat units of the united states army. and we stand by, my friends. we also stand with president bush in of the right of small towns and communities to control the raw sewage of pornography that so terribly pollutes our popular culture. we stand with president bush in favor of federal judges who interpret the law as written and against would be supreme court justices like mario cuomo, who think they have a mandate to rewrite the constitution.

on friends this election is about more than who gets what. it is about who we are. it is about what we believe. what we stand for as americans. there is a religious war going on in this country. it is a cultural war as critical to the kind nation we shall be as the cold itself. but this war is for the soul of america. and in that struggle for the of america, clinton, clinton are on the other side and george bush is on our. and so to the buchanan brigades

out there, we have to come home and stand beside george bush. in these six months of campaigning, concord, new hampshire, to california. i came to know country better than i have known it ever before in my life. and i gathered up memories that are going to be with me the rest of my days, as it was, that day long ride through the great state of georgia. in a bus, vice bush himself had used a 1988 cold asphalt one. the ride ended in a 9 p.m. speech in. a tiny town in southern georgia called fitzgerald. were those workers at the james

river paper mill in northern new hampshire in a town called grosvenor tough hardy men. none of them would say a word me as i came down the line, shaking their hands one by one. they were under threat of losing their jobs at christmas. as i moved down the line, one tough fellow about my age just looked up and said to me, save our jobs. and there was the legal secretary that i met at the manchester airport on christmas day who came running up to me and said, mr. buchanan, i'm going to vote for you. and then she broke down, weeping and she said, i've lost my job. i don't have any money. and they're going to take away my little girl. what am i going to do? my friends these people are people. they don't read adam smith or

edmund burke, but they come from the same schoolyards and the same playgrounds and towns as we came from. they share our beliefs and our convictions, our and our dreams. these are the conservatives of the heart. they are our people. and we need to reconnect with them. we need to let them know. we know how bad they're hurting. they don't expect miracles of us. but they need to know we care. there were the people there were the people that ran. they were the people of haiti for the tiny town up in california's trinity alps, a town that is now under a sentence of death because federal judge has set aside 9

million acres for the habitat of the spotted owl. forgetting about the habitat of the men and women who live and work in haiti work. there were the brave people and there were the brave people of koreatown who the worst of those l.a. riots but still live the family we treasure, and who still deeply believe in the american dream friends and these wonderful and these wonderful five weeks of our campaign the saddest days were the days of that riot in l.a.. worst riot in american history. but out of that awful tragedy can come a of hope. hours after that riot, i down to the army compound, south los angeles, where i met the troopers of the 18th cavalry who

had come to save the city of los angeles. an officer, the 18th cav. they are. mr. buchanan, i want you to talk to a couple of our troopers. and i went over and i met these young fellas. it couldn't have been 20 years old. and they their story. they had come in to los angeles late in the evening of the second day, and the rioting was still going on. and two of them walked up a dark street with a mob, had burned and looted every single building on the block. but one a convalescent home for the aged in the mob was headed in to ransack and loot the apartments of the terrified men and women inside. the troopers came up the street, m-16s at the ready, and the mob threatened, and coerced. but the mob retreated because it

had met the one thing that could stop it. force rooted in justice and backed by moral courage. no greater. greater love than this. greater love than this. have no man. and that he lay down his life for his friend. here were 19 year old boys ready to lay down their lives to stop a mob from molesting old people. they did not even know. and as those boys took back the streets of los angeles block by block, my we must take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. god bless you and god,thank you.

thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, i am very proud to introduce my hero and my